Funders committed to civic participation need to get more comfortable with the notion of “risky” grantmaking in order to better protect and support our grantees on the front lines and counter the authoritarian forces truly making our communities less safe. Now is a time for us to show more courage, not less.

Among European populist radical right (PRR) parties, the call for environmental protection has historically been embedded in ethnic nationalist ideas of the interrelation of land, nation, and culture.